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Morena against Morena: internal struggles hamper the process of renewing the president's party

2022-08-19T21:47:57.373Z


The formation delays the announcement of who will make up the Congress that will define how the next presidential candidate will be elected, in which Adán Augusto López and López Obrador's brother have already won their place


A woman waves a Morena flag in Campeche, in June 2021. Special Photographer (Special Photographer)

The first results of Morena's internal dispute have appeared after almost three weeks of waiting.

The ruling party has announced who has prevailed in the district elections in only 11 of the 32 states of the country.

The winners have secured a place in the National Congress and are closer to the Council next September, a kind of conclave that will be key to defining how they will be elected and eventually who will be the presidential candidate of the most voted party in Mexico.

In this first round of results, names such as Adán Augusto López, Secretary of the Interior and one of the most advanced candidates in the race for the candidacy, and Ramiro López Obrador, brother of the president, stand out.

At the end of July, the members of Morena were called to elect 10 representatives (five men and five women) for each of the electoral districts for the National Council.

The partial results already allow us to see some glimpses of how the assembly body will be configured, which will be key to defining the distribution of candidates, internal positions and resources.

Ramiro López Obrador, for example, was the most voted candidate in District 1 of the State of Tabasco, the president's homeland, which elected 60 congressmen.

Adán Augusto López, also from Tabasco, has shown muscle by securing a place for himself in the National Congress, the highest internal authority, and placing several of his operators on the game board, such as the party's representative before the National Electoral Institute, Mario Llergo or Tey Mollinedo,

In the northern state of Chihuahua, the majority triumphed was the team led by Juan Carlos Loera, a former deputy and superdelegate for social programs in the state, who at the beginning of the month said that he had not yet opted for any presidential candidate.

The rest of the internal charges were amassed by Cruz Pérez Cuéllar, mayor of Ciudad Juárez, with whom Loera had friction in the race for the governorship.

The deputies Andrea Chávez and Maité Vargas also got a place, as well as different local legislators.

In Puebla, the current led by Governor Miguel Barbosa prevailed, as well as local deputy Olga Romero Garci Crespo, who is emerging as a favorite for the party's state leadership.

Daniela Mier, a local deputy and daughter of Morena's leader in the Chamber of Deputies, Ignacio Mier, was also elected.

In Colima, groups linked to the governor, Indira Vizcaíno, also won.

Same case of Sonora, where profiles close to the governor, Alfonso Durazo, abound.

In Coahuila, the names of Antonio Attolini, a former student activist, former deputy Diego del Bosque, as well as Humberto Hurtado, advisor to the candidate for governor Armando Guadiana, stood out.

The lists of Sinaloa, Nayarit, Querétaro, Quintana Roo and Baja California Sur were also released.

In all these states, the process to elect state leaders will continue.

The leadership of the party has justified the trickle of results by the influx of votes from more than two million militants and has minimized the accusations of irregularities.

The publication of the official counts, on the other hand, paves the way for the challenges to be formalized, which are scheduled to be resolved by the Electoral Tribunal.

Time begins to press.

In less than a month, the state representations of Morena must go through the filter of renewing their management positions and arrive without unresolved appeals before the National Council.

The objective of the party is to reach the September meeting as a united front and avoid, as far as possible, internal fractures due to the race for the succession.

Even with a long way to go before the 2024 election, the uncoverings have shown that Morena has a deck of at least four clear candidates for the presidency: Adán Augusto López;

the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard;

the leader of the caucus in the Senate, Ricardo Monreal, and the head of the Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum.

The Council, which will also convene regional and national figures, such as more than twenty governors, is emerging as a defining moment that will mark the rhythms and tones of the race for the presidency, not only between morenistas,

also for the rest of the parties that are analyzing whether they will open their doors to those discarded in the internal process of López Obrador's party.

Profiles related to Monreal and Ebrard have been the most vocal critics of the internal process, but behind the scenes, none of them wants to give up an inch of ground.

Beyond the presidential contest, which takes practically all the spotlight, Morena has been going for years without renewing some of its internal preserves.

The formation, a kind of party-movement, has placed at the top of its list of priorities the consolidation of its partisan structure, an issue that is still pending despite the electoral successes it has amassed after the arrival of López Obrador to the presidency.

Faced with an opposition that remains on the canvas and is resigned to negotiating a unity candidacy, Morena's greatest fear resides in Morena: internal divisions, the opportunism of the newcomers, the weakness of its territorial machinery in some priority points and the future of his political project in the final stretch of López Obrador's mandate.

The first great test of the match is against himself.

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